"1967, with his daughter Chris Calloway. In 1967, Calloway co-starred opposite Pearl Bailey as Horace Vandergelder in an all-black cast change of ""Hello, Dolly!"" on Broadway during its original run. Chris Calloway also joined the cast as Minnie Fay. The new cast revived the flagging business for the show and RCA Victor released a new cast recording, rare for the time. In 1973–74, Calloway was featured in an unsuccessful Broadway revival of ""The Pajama Game"" alongside Hal Linden and Barbara McNair. His autobiography, ""Of Minnie the Moocher and Me"" (Crowell), was published in 1976. It included his complete ""Hepsters Dictionary"""
"The Cab Calloway Orchestra The Cab Calloway Orchestra, based at the exclusive Cotton Club in Harlem, was, for more than a decade, one of the most important jazz bands in America. Different lineups featured the best available established musicians. In 1930, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra was hired to replace Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, and recorded for Brunswick and the ARC dime store labels (Banner, Cameo, Conqueror, Perfect, Melotone, Banner, Oriole, etc.) from 1930–1932. In 1932, he signed with Victor for a year, but he was back on Brunswick in late 1934 through 1936, when he signed with"
"with the New Orleans pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton and Joe Steele. He then joined The Missourians in 1929, just before Calloway took the band over. Among his arrangements was Calloway's 1931 hit song, ""Minnie the Moocher."" In 1943, he left Calloway's orchestra to work with the saxophonist and composer Don Redman. He led a 1944 recording session with sidemen including Coleman Hawkins, Hilton Jefferson, Eddie Barefield, and Jonah Jones; another session that year featured Ben Webster, Budd Johnson, and Emmett Berry. During the mid-1940s he taught at a studio on West 48th Street in New York City; among"
"on piano; Walter ""Foots"" Thomas and Thornton Blue on alto saxes; Andrew Brown on tenor sax; Morris White on banjo; Jimmy Smith on tuba; and DePriest Wheeler on trombone; Leroy Maxey on drums; R. Q. Dickerson and Lammar Wright on trumpets. The Cab Calloway Orchestra The Cab Calloway Orchestra, based at the exclusive Cotton Club in Harlem, was, for more than a decade, one of the most important jazz bands in America. Different lineups featured the best available established musicians. In 1930, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra was hired to replace Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, and recorded for"
"as a drummer, singer and MC. At the Sunset Café, Calloway cut his teeth as an understudy for singer Adelaide Hall. Here he met and performed with Louis Armstrong, who taught him to sing in the ""scat"" style. He eventually left school to sing with a band called the Alabamians. In 1930 Calloway took over a band called ""The Missourians""; later on, they renamed it ""Cab Calloway and His Orchestra"". The Cotton Club in New York's Harlem was the premier jazz venue in the country. In 1931 Calloway and his orchestra were hired as a replacement for the Duke Ellington"
"and Her Joy Boys, which included Ben Webster on tenor saxophone and Cozy Cole on drums. This made her the first woman to lead an all-male jazz orchestra. This big band recorded four times in 1931 and once in 1934 and 1935, releasing recordings on RCA Victor. The band would eventually change their name to Blanche Calloway and Her Orchestra and in 1933 the ""Pittsburgh Courier"" called Calloway and her orchestra one of the top ten outstanding African American orchestras. During 1934 and 1935 she would record eight songs with this group, including songs such as ""Just a Crazy Song"","
"pair under the name of The Black Hillbillies. He also recorded with the Harlem Hamfats. In the 1930s he was often on radio in the Chicago area, and led his own band, Frankie ""Half Pint"" Jaxon and his Quarts Of Joy. Jaxon appeared with Duke Ellington in a film short called ""Black and Tan Fantasy"" (1929). Cab Calloway's ""Minnie the Moocher"" (1931) is based both musically and lyrically on Jaxon's ""Willie the Weeper"" (1927). In 1941 he retired from show business and worked at The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. He was transferred to Los Angeles, California. According to most sources,"
"girlfriend, while also trying to keep Cab in place so that his relations with Nettie do not have a chance to blossom. When Boss Mason gets too close to Cab, Cab has to defend himself against Mo the mouse before the bullets start flying. Hi-De-Ho (1947 film) Hi De Ho (also known as Hi-De-Ho) is a 1947 American musical race film directed by Josh Binney that was released by All American Entertainment and had an African-American cast. The film stars Cab Calloway. He performs a number of songs in the film, including a capella versions of ""Minnie was a Hep"
"(Memphis Minnie and Joe McCoy, 1934). Of his Dallas recordings, it is Johnson's most uptempo song, with ""his exhuberant vocal driv[ing] home the story line"". Two takes of the song were recorded, both sounding very similar, although Johnson flubbed the opening verse of the second take. His record company released both takes on different pressings, with some singles having the first take and others having the second. Although the song is played in a fretted guitar style, on both takes Johnson added a brief slide coda that comes across ""like a little inside joke"". In 1970, the first take of"
"His recording debut on November 4, 1930 was on tuba with Parham's band on a tune titled ""Squeeze Me."" After graduating from Crane Junior College in 1932, attended Northwestern University for one semester, then dropped out to pursue music full-time. He received steady work from 1932 through 1935 in a quartet with violinist Eddie South, with extended residencies in California, Chicago, and Detroit. With this group he first recorded on double bass in the spring of 1933. In 1936, Hinton joined the Cab Calloway Orchestra, initially as a temporary replacement for Al Morgan while the band was on tour en"
"Db6, Ab9, Db6, Ddim, Ebm7, Ab7, Db, Db chord sequence. The B section phrases use a Gb9/G9, Gb9, B13/F#m6, B13, E9/F9, E9, A13, Ab9b chord sequence. The tempo is medium fast. The Webb's orchestra's recording rose to number ten on the charts in 1934. Two years later the piece charted by Ozzie Nelson and by Benny Goodman. Since becoming a jazz standard, the song has been recorded hundreds of times, including by Judy Garland (1936), Charlie Christian (1941),Art Tatum (1941), Clifford Brown and Max Roach (1954), Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (1956), Jim Hall (1957), Ahmad Jamal and Cal Tjader"
"of Minnie's most popular songs; she eventually recorded five versions of it. Minnie and McCoy continued to record for Vocalion until August 1934, when they recorded a few sessions for Decca Records. Their last session together was for Decca, in September. They divorced in 1935. An anecdote from Big Bill Broonzy's autobiography, ""Big Bill Blues"", recounts a cutting contest between Minnie and Broonzy in a Chicago nightclub on June 26, 1933, for the prize of a bottle of whiskey and a bottle of gin. Each singer was to sing two songs; after Broonzy sang ""Just a Dream"" and ""Make My"
"including Calloway's ""We the Cats (Shall Hep Ya)."" After its release on ""Jumpin' Jive"", Jackson's version was later released as a single, where it charted at #43 in Britain. It has been recorded notably by The Andrews Sisters, Glenn Miller, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Jumpin' Jive ""Jumpin' Jive"" (also known as ""(Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive"") is a famous jazz/swing composition, written by Cab Calloway, Frank Froeba and Jack Palmer. Originally recorded on 17 July 1939, on Vocalion Records, it sold over a million copies. Calloway performs it with his orchestra and the Nicholas Brothers in the 1943 film musical"
"in a 1929 film short. Later it was also sung briefly by the Rhythm Boys in the 1930 film ""King of Jazz"". The song was also sung in the 1931 Toby the Pup cartoon ""Down South"". The Rhythm Boys, Bing Crosby, Harry Barris, and Al Rinker, performed the song when they reunited on radio in 1943 on the ""Paul Whiteman Presents"" radio program. Paul Whiteman re-recorded the song on December 7, 1954 for Coral Records. The song has been recorded by a number of artists since, including Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke, Dinah Shore, Si Zentner and"
"based lyrically on Frankie ""Half-Pint"" Jaxon's 1927 ""Willie the Weeper"" (Bette Davis sings this version in ""The Cabin in the Cotton""). The lyrics are heavily laden with drug references. The character ""Smokey"" is described as ""cokey"", meaning a user of cocaine; the phrase ""kick the gong around"" was a slang reference to smoking opium. The November 22, 1951 issue of ""Jet"" magazine gives this account of the ""Minnie"" on whom the song was based: Calloway also wrote an extended version, adding verses that describe Minnie and Smokey going to jail; Minnie pays Smokey's bail, but he abandons her there. Another"
"Getaway,"" Minnie won the prize with ""Me and My Chauffeur Blues"" and ""Looking the World Over"". Paul and Beth Garon, in their biography ""Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues"", suggested that Broonzy's account may have combined various contests at different dates, as these songs of Minnie's date from the 1940s rather than the 1930s. By 1935 Minnie was established in Chicago and had become one of a group of musicians who worked regularly for the record producer and talent scout Lester Melrose. Back on her own after her divorce from McCoy, Minnie began to experiment with different styles and sounds."
"Cab Calloway Cabell Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer, dancer, and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular big bands from the start of the 1930s to the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus ""Doc"" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon ""Chu"" Berry, New Orleans guitarist Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform"
"The show ended in 1927 in Chicago, and Calloway decided to stay there, as it was the jazz capital of the world during the time. The club, the Sunset, became her main stage and where Cab Calloway likewise worked after his move to Chicago. Surprising for the time, Blanche Calloway earned higher wages than Cab, making around two to three hundred dollars whereas Cab regularly made $35 a week. She became popular in the Chicago scene and would continue to tour nationally, performing at New York's Ciro Club in the mid-1920s. Shortly after her time at the Ciro Club, she"
"Jumpin' Jive ""Jumpin' Jive"" (also known as ""(Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive"") is a famous jazz/swing composition, written by Cab Calloway, Frank Froeba and Jack Palmer. Originally recorded on 17 July 1939, on Vocalion Records, it sold over a million copies. Calloway performs it with his orchestra and the Nicholas Brothers in the 1943 film musical ""Stormy Weather"". ""Jumpin' Jive"" was covered by new wave artist Joe Jackson (under the band name Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive) on his 1981 album of the same name. The album, originally conceived as ""a few pub gigs for a laugh,"" also featured other jump-blues tracks,"
"Thompson, Aaron (Trombone); Bailey, Buster (Soprano Saxophone); and Christian, Buddy (Banjo). Another popular recording in 1925 was by Aileen Stanley. The song remained popular for decades and continues to be performed regularly in the 21st century. The opening phrases of the song's lyrics are featured in a fine early Langston Hughes poem, ""The Cat and the Saxophone, 2am"" (1926), about a couple's interactions at a jazz club in the 1920s. It is sung in Series 3, Episode 1 of ""Jeeves and Wooster"". It is played in the background of the film ""Cat's Meow"", which tells the story of the mysterious"
"The Waltz You Saved for Me ""The Waltz You Saved for Me"" is a popular song written in 1930 by Wayne King and Emil Flindt with lyrics by Gus Kahn. The song soon became associated as the theme song of Wayne King and His Orchestra. Notable artists who have recorded the song include: Al Bowlly (1931), Bert Ambrose (1931), Roy Smeck (1931), The Light Crust Doughboys (1935), Bing Crosby (1938), Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys (1938), Robert Hamilton and His Orchestra (1950), John Schroeder's Playboys, Cliffie Stone (1952), Billy Vaughn (1955), Lenny Breau (1956), Merle Travis (1956), Bill Doggett"
"1945, including on many recording sessions and a tour of Europe in 1934. He appeared alongside Calloway as a performer in sound films including ""Hi-De-Ho"" (1937), ""Blues in the Night"" (1942), and ""Minnie the Moocher"" (1942). In the late 1940s Brown ran a music education studio in New York. Andrew Brown (musician) Andrew ""Andy"" Brown (February 2, 1900 - August 1960) was an American jazz reedist. He played clarinet, bass saxophone, alto saxophone, and tenor saxophone, and is best known for his longtime association with Cab Calloway. Early in the 1920s Brown worked in the bands of P.B. Langford and"
"Baltimore and married her high school sweetheart. She died from breast cancer on December 16, 1978, at the age of 76. Blanche Calloway Blanche Dorothea Jones Calloway (February 9, 1902 – December 16, 1978) was an American jazz singer, composer, and bandleader. She was the older sister of Cab Calloway and was a successful singer before her brother. With a music career that spanned over fifty years, Calloway was the first woman to lead an all-male orchestra and performed alongside musicians such as Cozy Cole, Chick Webb, and her brother. Her performing style was described as flamboyant and a major"
"order... The voice sings in high register except for the downward cadences which end the phrases; the taut, muted trumpet is very blue in tone; underneath, the piano is simple and rich."" When Georgia White recorded the song in 1936, she was also accompanied by Jones on piano plus a guitarist and bassist. According to Big Bill Broonzy, her performances beginning in 1929 with Jimmie Noone helped to popularize the piece long before she recorded it. In 1952, Dinah Washington recorded ""Trouble in Mind"", which was released shortly after her rendition of ""Wheel of Fortune"". Hers was the first recording"
"Duke Ellington's band had become known as the Cotton Club Orchestra. After returning to New York the band took up residency at the Savoy Ballroom from 1928 to 1929; reedist George Scott was its leader during this period. In 1929 Cab Calloway led the group intermittently, and assumed leadership of the band in 1930; soon after he began recording as Cab Calloway and His Orchestra. Prior to Calloway's arrival, the group recorded for Gennett Records and Victor Records. The group's membership in the 1920s included Lammar Wright, Sr., R.Q. Dickerson, Dewey Jackson, William Thornton Blue, David Jones, Earres Prince, and"
"Hi-De-Ho (1947 film) Hi De Ho (also known as Hi-De-Ho) is a 1947 American musical race film directed by Josh Binney that was released by All American Entertainment and had an African-American cast. The film stars Cab Calloway. He performs a number of songs in the film, including a capella versions of ""Minnie was a Hep Cat"" and ""St. James Infirmary"" with his orchestra. The orchestra also provides incidental music for the other performers. Featured in the movie are the singers the Peters Sisters and the tap dancers Miller Brothers and Lois. Cab Calloway is an up and coming jazz"
"track ""Elevator Man"", that was released in December 1966. The album ""Side Trips"" was released in June 1967, and an additional single was released with album cut ""Why Try"" backed by non-album track ""Little Orphan Nannie"". The album combined rock & roll with roots and world music, and contained several traditional songs including Charlie Poole's ""Hesitation Blues"" and Cab Calloway's signature song Minnie the Moocher"". Among other cuts, bassist Chris Darrow contributed a couple of trippy songs, ""If the Night"" and ""Keep Your Mind Open"", while Solomon Feldthouse contributed an Eastern influenced ""Egyptian Gardens"". Soon after the release, they re-named"
"entitled ""Goodbye: In Search of Gordon Jenkins"". While researching the biography, Jenkins interviewed the singer Martha Tilton, who had performed with the Benny Goodman orchestra. Tilton revealed that the song was written by Jenkins after the death of his first wife in childbirth. The song was used as the closing theme for radio broadcasts by the Benny Goodman orchestra. They recorded it on September 27, 1935 and that was issued as Victor 25215 on January 8, 1936. Upon Goodman's death in 1986, Richard Stoltzman commissioned an arrangement of ""Goodbye"" by Bill Jenkins for clarinet and strings. The resulting ""Goodbye: In"
"black American Jazz singer, who drew heavy influences from Jewish music, even going so far to be considered an ""Afro-Yiddishist."" Calloway's friendship with his Jewish manager, Irving Mills was Calloway's main gateway into the world of Jewish music and songs. Calloway also said he learned about Jewish music when he was a kid and would go to hear the cantors sing in synagogues, which he claims directly influences his notable ""<nowiki>""</nowiki>Hi-De-Ho' style,"" exemplified in his hit song and later famous animation, ""Minnie the Moocher.""Calloway directly paid homage to the Yiddish culture introduced to him by Irving Berlin in his song"
"Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's ""All the Things You Are"" (1939). These songs still rank among the most recorded standards. Johnny Green's ""Body and Soul"" was introduced in Broadway and became a hit after Coleman Hawkins's 1939 recording. It is the most recorded jazz standard of all time. 1930s in jazz In the 1930s in jazz, swing jazz emerged as a dominant form in American music, in which some virtuoso soloists became as famous as the band leaders. Key figures in developing the ""big"" jazz band included bandleaders and arrangers Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington,"
"band and cast of 22 Cotton Club dancers from New York. According to music historian Arthur Knight, the film aimed in part ""to both erase and celebrate boundaries and differences, including most emphatically the color line."" He also notes that ""when Calloway begins singing in his characteristic style – in which the words are tools for exploring rhythm and stretching melody – it becomes clear that American culture is changing around Jolson and with (and through) Calloway"". Calloway's was one of the most popular American jazz bands of the 1930s, recording prolifically for Brunswick and the ARC dime store labels"
"top musicians and protected himself by forming the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, using them as a relief band at the Cotton Club. Cab Calloway and his band went into the Cotton Club with a new song Irving co-wrote with Calloway and Clarence Gaskill called ""Minnie the Moocher"". One of his most significant innovations was the ""band within a band"" concept, recording small groups to record hot small group sides for the various dime store labels. He started this in 1928 by arranging for members of Ben Pollack's band to make records under a bewildering array of pseudonyms on dime store"
"Moonglow (song) ""Moonglow"", also known as ""Moonglow and Love"" is a 1933 popular song. The music was by Will Hudson (1908–1981) and Irving Mills and the words were by Eddie DeLange. ""Moonglow"" is a 32-bar tune in the form of AABA. ""Moonglow"" appears in jazz fake books and lead sheets in the key of G, though it is also thought to originally be in the key of C. It is tonal and begins on the IV chord, also referred to as the subdominant major chord, and the sixth, or submediant note of the major scale, before resolving onto the tonic."